The beginning was the ending

12:18 PM,
Feb. 5, 2014

Written by

Michael Sussman

When Lisa Green was in her 40s, she learned she had contacted Spinocerebellar Ataxia. Without relating all of the symptoms of this horrible disease, suffice it to say the manifestation is characterized by the loss of muscle control throughout the body.

Lisa went from walking with a walker to a wheelchair and later to a chaise type wheelchair device. She went from normal foods to soft foods to pureed foods. She went from playing her favorite tablet game, Rainbow Blocks, to complete quadriplegia in approximately nine years. Lisa's cognitive skills remained sharp. That was not to her advantage ...